02:52 pm | Turkey has reacted with anger after the French Senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I. The Turkish foreign...

11:59 am | European Union foreign ministers are expected to announce a phased ban on the purchase of oil from Iran at a meeting on Monday in Brussels. It would be the latest EU measure to...

12:29 pm | Arab League foreign ministers are due to decide whether to extend their controversial monitoring mission in Syria, amid continuing violence. The ministers will discuss a report by the mission’s head in Cairo, Egypt....

06:37 pm | Iran’s foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a “dangerous position” by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran’s nuclear activity....

03:57 pm | Thousands of needless deaths occurred from famine in East Africa last year because the international community failed to heed early warnings, say two leading British aid organisations. Oxfam and Save the Children say...

04:46 pm | The radical cleric Abu Qatada cannot be sent back to Jordan while “there remains a real risk that evidence obtained by torture will be used against him”, judges have ruled. The European court...